Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more distant prospect is Ozzie Cowles, father-in-law of Ben McCabe, jayvee football coach. Cowles had a brilliant team at Dartmouth and moved from there to Michigan, where he produced a Big Ten Champion quintet. Now at Minnesota, he had a great season there last year...
...warm up. They were a mixed lot. Barry Turner throws lefthanded; Ralph Hymans and Herbie Neal, right. None of the trio, fresh, could have done better than Godin, tired. If one of them turns out to be a pitcher who can go six innings or more, the whole baseball prospect could quickly become bathed in a soft, rosy light...
...much bigger to the mind and much smaller to the body ... In the 19th Century, Jules Verne wrote Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily, not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better...
...Europe's future, Hoffman saw a bold and hopeful prospect: "In order to build a united Europe, you first have to build Europeans. The European organizations that have been formed and that are at work now are building Europeans. For the first time in history, a body of men are beginning to think and plan and build together as Europeans and not as nationals of separate states. They are developing more and more the habit of working together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized...
...reductions were made, said Continental President L. J. Gunson, because of the "postwar readjustment" (gobbledygook for falling sales) and the prospect of increased supplies. Schenley Industries also cut the price on one smaller-selling blend...